Hannah Morris is a visual artist and illustrator living in Montpelier, Vermont. Born in East Dover, Vermont, she spent her youth in southern Vermont, and upon graduation from high school, moved to Maine to attend Bates College. She studied art, writing and documentary studies, graduating with a BA in American Cultural Studies. She spent the next several years working back and forth between Maine and Vermont, as a cook, arts administrator, teacher, exhibition and program coordinator, and eventually, as a graphic artist. Accepted into the Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship program, she headed to the Western Cape of South Africa with the initial plan to study botanical illustration for one year. Nearly six years later, she left South Africa, having completed an MPhil in Illustration (Visual Arts) focusing on narrative illustration, and having worked as a freelance illustrator, visual artist, graphics teacher, and arts program coordinator. She moved back to the United States, spending the next three years in Manhattan and Brooklyn, working as a graphic artist for Whole Foods Market. In 2010, she returned to Vermont, settling in Montpelier. She has shown her work in solo and group shows in Cape Town, South Africa, New York City, and Montpelier. She designed and illustrated an award-winning picture book published in Cape Town, and attended several artist’s residencies, including Instituto Sacatar in Bahia, Brazil. In her current work, she draws in pen & ink, makes gouache and paper-based paint collages (often combining words and images), and creates soft sculpture installations.
See more of Hannah’s work at draw-lucky.com.
See more of Hannah’s work at draw-lucky.com.